SF News (Video) BART Patrons Forced To Scramble Over Side Of Escalator To Nowhere Concord BART riders were faced with a troubling choice Thursday, when they walked down one of the transit agency's oft-broken escalators to the platform, only to have their escape from the steps blocked
SF News Brace For BART Snarls: Shutdowns Between Glen Park And Daly City Begin This Month Prepare yourselves, BART riders who expect to travel south of San Francisco between July and October. If you're headed out on a weekend, you should expect delays, disruptions, and more, as BART will
SF News Fire On SF Tracks Snarls Thursday Morning BART Commute, Empties Glen Park Station Up to 20min delays on BART after a debris fire on the tracks this morning pic.twitter.com/6iFmIIEAJ0— Matthew Zamudio (@neutralcolored) June 30, 2016 BART travel ground to a halt in San
SF News BART Seat Hogging? Expect A Criminal Background Check, Fines Starting this September, BART passengers taking up more than one train seat may be subject to police questioning, criminal background checks, fines, and even arrest. So reports CBS 5 as BART police share
Arts & Entertainment A Look At The 'Best-Case Scenario' For 2050 Bay Area Transit Bay Area denizens love making "dream" maps of public transit. The reality, of course, is that the construction of new lines, tracks, and whatever else is required to add new public transit to
SF News BART GM Acknowledges Her System's A Mess, Doesn't Seem Sure How To Fix It At a Bay Area transportation summit held last week, BART General Manager Grace Crunican sounded, frankly, exhausted and overwhelmed regarding both the system's issues and the public perception of the beleaguered transit agency.
SF News Despite Spending $2.5M, BART Still Doesn't Know What Caused Mystery Voltage Problem Remember those unexplained voltage spikes that knocked over 100 BART cars out of service earlier in the year? Thankfully, whatever was causing the disruption eventually stopped, and BART was able to resume normal
SF News One Dead After Plane Crashes On BART Tracks Pilot died as people tried to pull him out of burning plane. crash at #BART #Hayward NTSB investigating. #abc7news pic.twitter.com/aBJUHtcpww— Leslie Brinkley (@lrbrinkley) June 19, 2016 A man was killed
SF News A Close Up Look At The New BART Seats Yes, it smells like new car. #FleetOfTheFuture pic.twitter.com/dOB580FUw8— SFBART (@SFBART) April 6, 2016 While we're all certainly excited for the numerous amenities the new BART cars will offer, the seats
SF News Why Was The Interim Oakland Police Chief Canned So Quickly? There is a lot of instability right now in our community which is bringing us together on the issue of gun... https://t.co/T9EzHvpiOW— D Mendoza Consulting (@Champ4Justice) June 16, 2016 Yesterday's
SF News Polls Suggest Support For BART's $3.5 Billion Ballot Measure Won't Come Easy After months of editorial and social media support-building, BART's Board of Directors officially agreed Thursday to place a $3.5 billion bond measure intended to repair an infrastructure they describe as outdated, dilapidated,
SF News Clipper Policy Updated, Riders No Longer Responsible For Fares On Stolen Cards Did you know that you were responsible for charges on your Clipper card, even if you had reported it stolen? Well, until very recently, that was indeed the case. According to ABC 7,
SF News BART Adding 35,000 New Hanging Hand Straps To Steady Standing Passengers BART's Board of Directors approved the purchase of 35,000 new hanging hand straps at their meeting this morning, a move that will up the number of straps in each car from 30
SF News Some BART Employees Making Triple Their Salaries In Overtime A perceived pattern of excessive overtime pay to BART employees has a least one state senator asking questions, and has forced officials within the transit agency to launch an internal probe into the
SF News [Update] Person Stuck Under BART Train Shuts Embarcadero Station, Causes Systemwide Delays Embarcadero Station is shut down this morning as rescue workers attempt to free a person trapped under a train. According to BART, trains are skipping the station "due to a major medical emergency.
SF News BART Settles Case For $1.35M Involving Former Model Whose Face Got Slammed To Ground By Cops A very drunken St. Patrick's Day in 2014 turned into a incident of excessive force at the hands of BART police according to a lawsuit that was just settled by BART earlier this
SF News [Update] Major BART Delays After Smoke Fills 16th Street Station BART riders at San Francisco stations have been experiencing major delays in the East Bay direction this morning. The cause appears to be an equipment problem that left 16th Street station filled with
SF News BART Power Loss Wednesday Morning Leads To System-Wide Delays, Trapped Passengers BART is currently experiencing system-wide delays today of at least 20 minutes resulting from some sort of widespread power loss, BART officials announced. Meanwhile, at least some passengers appear trapped on dark trains
SF News Only Three Out Of 20 Major Local Transportation Projects Are Fully Funded While individuals and companies arrive in droves to the Bay Area in search of funding, taken as a whole, the metro area is woefully behind when it comes to funding number of crucial
SF News Is This Haagen Dazs BART Ad Really As Bad As The Chronicle Says It Is? Haagen Dazs BART ads take pandering to the next level https://t.co/sUquYSysLx— SFGate (@SFGate) May 11, 2016 Earlier today the Chronicle took not San Francisco-based frozen treat maker Haagen Dazs to
SF News Etiquette Week: Do You Have To Line Up For BART Doors? It's Etiquette Week at SFist, in which SFist's editors dole out some prescriptive advice for how to behave in this city we all share in order not to overly annoy, offend, or otherwise
SF News Door-Banger Snarls Wednesday Morning BART Commute A man who was allegedly making a fuss on BART as it traveled through San Francisco has been detained this morning, after his disturbing behavior delayed trains and sent police to the scene.
SF News Muni Is Getting A New Fleet Of Train Cars, Starting This Year Starting this year, Muni is set to begin receiving the first of its 260 new rail cars. Some of the trains, which the Chronicle reports are made by German company Siemens and are
SF News Day Around The Bay: BART 'Fleet Of The Future' Car Felled By Cabinet Door PHOTOS: Crews work to dig out new #BART train stuck in dirt during testing crash in Hayward: https://t.co/58uJUenn2v pic.twitter.com/APAEn7Jpzb— ABC7 News (@abc7newsBayArea) April 22, 2016 Follow SFist
SF News Engineers Still Don't Know Why New BART Car Crashed PHOTOS: Crews work to dig out new #BART train stuck in dirt during testing crash in Hayward: https://t.co/58uJUenn2v pic.twitter.com/APAEn7Jpzb— ABC7 News (@abc7newsBayArea) April 22, 2016 When a
